Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-11-02 Thread Simon Fraser
Added to features.json as "Removed". https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/208303 People, don't be shy in filling out features.json for things you're working on, or know are either done, or have outside interest. Simon > On Nov 2, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Brady

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-11-02 Thread Brady Eidson
> On Oct 30, 2016, at 8:27 PM, Brady Eidson wrote: > > I filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164213 to track the task of > removing. > I'll continue to monitor this email thread and comments in that bug, but > assuming no objections come up I'll remove the code later this week. Seem

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-10-30 Thread Brent Fulgham
I strongly support the proposal to remove this API. -Brent > On Oct 30, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Simon Fraser wrote: > > I support the proposal to remove. > > Simon > >> On Oct 30, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Brady Eidson wrote: >> >> >> There's code in the tree to support the W3C Battery Status API. >> >

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-10-30 Thread Brady Eidson
> On Oct 30, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Brady Eidson wrote: > > What to other Apple folks think? What do port maintainers who enable the API > think? In only a couple of hours since I started the thread the Linux port maintainers have agreed it's okay to remove. I also received another vote to remove

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-10-30 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 17:14 -0700, Brady Eidson wrote: > What to other Apple folks think? What do port maintainers who enable > the API think? Hi, The GTK+ implementation has been broken for years [1] so we're definitely not going to miss it! Michael [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-10-30 Thread Gyuyoung Kim
Hi Brady, The battery status API has been used by EFL port so far. As far as I know the feature was added to support web application. But I'm not sure how many web applications have used it so far.(Personally I guess it might be used by few applications.) Besides unfortunately nobody maintains it

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-10-30 Thread Simon Fraser
I support the proposal to remove. Simon > On Oct 30, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Brady Eidson wrote: > > > There's code in the tree to support the W3C Battery Status API. > > A recent study showed the extent of the risk (discussion and link to study > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3

[webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove Battery Status API code

2016-10-30 Thread Brady Eidson
There's code in the tree to support the W3C Battery Status API. A recent study showed the extent of the risk (discussion and link to study https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/battery-status-readout-as-a-privacy-risk/) which led to Mozilla first making the API less precise (https://bugzilla.mozilla.o